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Are Obama's policies pushing up energy costs?

Our nation’s natural resources and access to affordable energy are under assault from environmentalists, business interests and progressive politicians. Their plan is to raise the price of fossil fuels to make renewable energy economically competitive.

But too many Americans already face significant financial difficulties due to soaring energy costs and rising food prices. For example, a May 2011 USA Today/Gallup poll found that seven in ten Americans say high gasoline prices are causing them personal financial hardship.

Lower-income families are hardest hit by soaring energy prices. A recent study concluded that these households are spending nearly a quarter of their incomes on energy costs. Considering income inequalities, energy price increases have a disproportionately large effect on black and Hispanic households.

This crisis reverberates. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, cites higher gasoline prices for disappointing sales. A poll conducted by the wholesaler website DollarDays.com found 25 percent of small business owners fear high fuel prices will lead to layoffs.

President Obama’s energy policy is a major contributor to this economic pain. Instead of taking advantage of our nation’s abundant supply of domestic natural resources — coal, oil and natural gas currently provide about 85 percent of our energy needs — Obama is waging a war on fossil fuels.

Obama’s energy policy is designed to raise the costs and reduce the supply of fossil fuels through regulation of natural resource development and use.

Unfortunately for America, it’s the only way Obama can make renewable energy competitive to meet his goal of generating 80 percent of electricity from “clean” energy sources by 2035.

It’s a command-and-control energy policy where the federal government takes an active role in picking energy winners and losers, causing energy prices to “skyrocket” while stifling economic growth and driving jobs overseas.

Seems they are......
A new report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform details a disturbing “pattern of evidence” indicating that not only are the Obama administration’s energy policies responsible for higher oil and gas prices, but that the administration’s energy policy, in fact, is higher gas prices.
And.......we all heard him say "energy prices would necessarily skyrocket"

Yes, entirely. Unless he does an 180 degree turn and signs more permits to drill and to frack in the Dakotas and Texas and Colorado. Allow more refineries instead of blocking them repeatedly. As the fool in the WH once promised "energy costs will necessarily skyrocket" as he implements his energy policies engineered by his Marxist socialist czars. I think he will be very beatable in 2012 on this policy failure alone. When voters suspend their common sense and allow the master snake oil salesman to colorfully lie his way past the servile media, they get four years of Barry Obama. Opening up our oil resources will almost immediately influence the world oil market in favor of lowering futures prices. It is a progressive myth that our drilling will take years to increase supply and lower prices.